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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Kennelly was engaged in submarine cable operations for ten years. In 1886 he became Thomas A. Edison's principal electrical assistant; and since 1902 has been teaching at the University. He is affiliated with many scientific societies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENNELLY NOMINATED FOR FAMOUS BRITISH AWARD | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...very new thing they discovered: some normal "rapid" stomachs digest a meal in two and a half hours. Other normal "slow" stomachs require three and a half hours for the process. Those rates pertain only to the stomach. Digestion proceeds all the way down the ten yards of bowels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meat for Digestion | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...with the idea of causing rat bite fever to shake some of the paralysis out of the Illinois paretics that the Hershfield group infected them. Only ten patients died during the treatment, and of those only two deaths could be directly attributed to the infection. Of the others, Dr. Hershfield reported last week, half were more or less physically improved and 20% showed some mental improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rat Bite Fever & Paresis | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Jenkins Television Corp. was announced last winter (TIME, Dec. 17), as a $10,000,000 company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Televisionary Assets | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...provided periodic newspaper headlines. In quick succession came the campaign against the "Wise Men of Zion" and the voyage of the "Peace Ship"-two ventures which had little to do with the turn-outs of one million cars by 1915, five million by 1922. And with the ten millionth, Ford turned incongruously collector of antiques, patron of country dancing, defender of an earlier civilization. Mr. Merz considers it an irony that a civilization precocious in mechanics should be puerile in philosophy. His epitome of the later-day Ford: "The old scene vanished. And a man who had helped destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ford, A Focus | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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